If old crips packets from years ago fill you with nostalgia, come check out my latest video for a look at some old favourites. Branding is removed for the first 10 seconds of each to give you a chance to guess, & there's a selection of digitally restored retro crisp adverts to enjoy at the end too.

My Saisho T404 Twin Deck with three-band graphic equaliser (top-left). My game backup / top 40 taping / mixtaping workhorse! 🤗

Just got round to uploading a dumb little ZX Spectrum survival/strategy game I programmed back in 2018. Free to download, for emulators or real hardware. Here's the download page: retrosteveuk.itch.io/planet-survi...

Game Boy Phones, Sinclair Spectrum Lego, Fighting Fantasy Books and more, all packaged up for you in a digestable, entertaining video format. Join me over on RetroSpectives for the latest edition of Retro Newsround, (12th February 2026.)

The No ICE in Minnesota bundle has launched, raising funds for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. Over 1400 items for $10.00! itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

Post your favourite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.

22-Game charity bundle of Steam games on offer from "Safe In Our World" charity for a £17.99p donation, worth a look as there are some great titles included. News source: retronews.com/safe-in-our-world-bundle/

Hot news about Julian Rignall's upcoming retro mag in the works, Golden Age.

Remember what classic arcades used to be like before they devolved into a mass of rigged claw machines and ticket-spouting novelty games? Join me for an in-depth look at how we can recreate that experience at home.

This "Lego Ideas" proposal is pretty cool. Needs 5,000 supporter clicks; currently at 1,193 with 535 days to go. #sinclair #zxspectrum #lego

Nearly there!

Looking for comments to feature in a video (5th Feb) about classic arcades, how arcades have changed, and ways we've tried to recreate the experience at home over the years. Also any thoughts on those modern retro arcades that charge an entry fee for a session of free play. Thanks in advance! 😊👍️

Do YOU think you could write a ZX Spectrum BASIC game & contribute to this exciting project? Click below for details!!

Live streaming this Thursday at 7.30pm; a selection of games from the Spectrum Next - the modern spiritual successor to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Hopefully see you there! Channel Link: youtube.com/RetroSpectives #zxspectrum #spectrumnext #zxspectrumnext

WTAF!!? 😲 200 Quid!? Actual link: www.lego.com/en-gb/produc...

Pride and joy! Finally fulfilling a life-long ambition to have a home arcade machine. Evercade Alpha Bartop Arcade. Will be doing a quick vid on my IRL channel with quick clips of this, and a full review video on RetroSpectives in a couple of weeks. 10 Games built-in & more available via cartridges.

What's Inside this February 1988 issue of "Girl" magazine? Come & find out, in this nostalgic throwback to the days of pop pinups, problem pages, photo stories and nosey brothers sneaking a peek at your favourite magazines.

I've just realised that every time I hear "AI" mentioned in what is now a corporate advertising-saturated environment that we can't avoid, I've subconsciously started adding two more letters into the equation.

Next week's video will be looking through 'Girl' magazine (Feb 1988). I'm after memories to feature in the video, about this or any other girls' magazines from the past, whether you were a reader, or if you remember your sisters' mags lying around the house, eg. Jackie, Just Seventeen, Bunty, etc..

Wow, the Beano's changed a lot since I was a kid!

Whether it was taping the Top 40 off the radio, or "backing up" our computer games, audio cassettes were a significant part of growing up for many of us, so come get your fill of cassette tape nostalgia with my latest RetroSpectives video.

I'm tempted ... Which Amiga pack did you get?

Get the latest, most interesting and relevant retro updates in the 10th edition of Retro Newsround (8th Jan 2026). Gaming, toys, films, TV, computing, magazines, etc., all wrapped up in an entertaining video package.

Marble's Marbles, looks like a fitting tribute to marble-rolling games of old and you can colour me intrigued for this one. Releasing Jan 7th on Steam. Picked up the story this morning on www.retronews.com/marbles-marb... Promo vid: youtu.be/emfluuk8gQs

New video coming up on 15th January needs a few of your comments to feature; it's about audio cassette tapes and what they meant to us. Any memories of cassette players, tapes, music, mixtapes, 8-bit home computers that used tapes, or indeed anything else cassette-related? 📼🎶🕹️

Live stream tonight starts at 7.30pm, with a 5 minute countdown at five-to for chats. Streaming "Huntdown" - modern retro action/platform game. Hopefully see you there! 👋☺️ Channel link: www.youtube.com/@RetroSpecti...

I've just seen the full version of that TV advert for TikTok. Educational content on TikTok? That's like saying you need a Commodore 64 to help with your homework! 🤣

Happy New Year and thank you for all the support throughout 2025 - views, likes, subs etc., it's all helped with the channel growth. Here's my obligatory end-of-year video for you, with updates about the video work and a bit of personal stuff too. 🥳🎉

This is glorious, and I will confess I never realised both bands were involved with that song.

What would success in 2026 look like to you?

Join me this week, Thursday 1st Jan at 7.30pm, for a live streaming session playing the modern-retro, run-and-gun game, "Huntdown." Hopefully see you there, but if you miss it the replay will be up afterwards, complete with chapter markers for easy browsing. Game info: easytrigger.com/huntdown/

Wife got me a graphics tablet for Christmas. Yes, I'm shit at drawing (this was my first tryout with the device) but I'm loving how these things work, and it should come in handy for some of the finer detail in image editing for video work. Super-impressed with how pen-like using one is.

Happy Christmas everyone, just remember, you'll get to stage 4 soon enough

One final Christmas video treat this year, it's a look back at the 1988 TV version of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. If you're looking for some Christmas nostalgia to help wash down that massive lunch you just stuffed away, look no further! 🍽️🥳

Remember that trend in the #80s of #MovieSoundtrack videos featuring the movie cast with the artist? #Videos at the height of #MTV popularity. #Ghostbusters, Jewel of the Nile, Stand By Me, St Elmo’s Fire. An oddity that I’m not sure continued beyond the 80s. Can anyone think of any other examples?

Looking for comments to feature in an upcoming video on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the six-part 1988 TV series. 🦁🧙‍♀️🚪 Video is dropping next Thursday (Christmas Day!) at 3pm so there'll be a few days to post comments before the script deadline .. Thanks in advance. ☺️👍

Fancy a quick look back at how the UK Christmas Pop charts used to be? All that excitement over who's getting the number one top-spot in time for Christmas day. Is that even a thing anymore? Test your Christmas music knowledge too in my latest RetroSpectives video. 📻🎅

Just popped a new video up on my vlog channel (RetroSteve IRL). A trip out to see the Christmas Model Village at Frosts in Woburn Sands near Milton Keynes. You'll get to see some of their Christmas goodies, plus a look at our own Christmas tree train set display at home this year.

I miss Cadbury .. RIP🍫

My wife has agreed to let me buy the Bubble Bobble/Taito version of the Evercade Alpha bartop arcade machine for my birthday next month. Super-stoked about finally having a 'proper' cabinet in the house. Any thoughts on this machine? I love the easily interchangeable carts for extra games.

I love a good milestone! 🎉 Latest video is flying high; fifty new subscribers this evening alone! Whaaat!?? 🤯

Join me for a browse through the 1984 Dixons Christmas catalogue and put a ring around an item from each page that you'd REALLY want to find under the tree on Christmas morning in 1984. New Hi-Fi? Boombox? Portable TV for your bedroom? Come and take your pick!

McDonald’s. If you’d actually done that ad and in the last bit actually filmed a real person going into McDonald’s and eating a real burger with a tagline of “escape the fake” you’d’ve done gangbusters. Pay me for this idea.

A bumper Christmas Lego roundup, Gizmo's making his movie comeback, and some home arcade machines for your Christmas list; just a couple of the stories in this month's Retro Newsround, up now over on RetroSpectives.

Currently working on the script for next Thursday's Dixons Catalogue video and Fuzzy's just shared his personal collection of electronic games. Definitely one for the featured Comments section. 😊👍 Clamshell Donkey Kong is the biggest classic here for me.

I'm after your comments to feature in a video this year (coming 11th Dec), looking through the '84 Dixons Christmas catalogue. Any memories of special toys & tech you got for Christmas around that time, or of Dixons in general (or any electrical stores you remember for that matter) are welcome. 📺🎅

All set up and ready for tonight's live stream on youtube.com/RetroSpectives .. Going live in about an hour (7.30pm), so see you there if you're able .. 📺🕹️👍

Heads-up for this Thursday; it's my first official live stream on RetroSpectives. Pencil in 7.30pm on Nov 27th, where we'll be sampling action-platformer Neon Inferno, followed by two of the games that inspired its gameplay; Robocop & Cabal. Channel Link: www.youtube.com/RetroSpectives

Cor! This is a blast .. new magazine called DOCTYPE from @vole.wtf has just launched, with code listings you can type in for modern platforms and languages. Just a quick scroll down the web page took me straight back to old computer mags on my Speccy in the 80s. 🤗

Take a tour with us around Crash Live 2025, a retro gaming event held in Kenilworth. Mainly a ZX Spectrum event, but includes a wide range of other game consoles as well, including free-to-play arcade machines! If you have a favourite old computer or console it's probably here.